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Railroad

noun

Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight. Synonyms: railroad line, railway, railway line, railway system.

A line of track providing a runway for wheels. Synonyms: railroad track, railway.

verb

Compel by coercion, threats, or crude means. Synonyms: dragoon, sandbag.

Supply with railroad lines.

Transport by railroad.

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"Railroad" Quotes from Famous Books

... waste the Pony Express executed those marvellous feats in annihilating distance, and the once famous Overland Stage lumbered along through the seemingly interminable desert of sage-brush and alkali dust—avant-courieres of the telegraph and the railroad. ...

— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman

... deeply thankful that his simple device had comforted them, went rapidly down the road to the castle. He forgot that he had not broken his fast nor slept. The count was one of the directors of the railroad, and to him he would make ...

— The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories • Gertrude Atherton

... long in Reservoir," he spoke again aloud, and the mare threw back one ear to listen. "Just long enough to eat and sleep, and then we'll start overland to Estabrook. That's sensible! That's better than squandering money on a railroad ticket." ...

— Winner Take All • Larry Evans

... railroad-men at Saratoga tell you you can go straight from there to the foot of Lake George, don't you believe a word of it. Perhaps you can, and perhaps you cannot; but you are not any more likely to can for their saying so. We left Saratoga for Fort-William-Henry ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. July, 1863, No. LXIX. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... shouldering surveying instruments, stopped in their tracks on the freshly-heaped soil of a new railroad embankment, and gazed up at the hillside. The railroad skirted its foot and the sudden activity on the slope was in full view. "Your lambs seem to be blatting around the fodder-rack once more, Parker," observed the man who lugged the ...

— The Rainy Day Railroad War • Holman Day

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